Summary:
My version of season 5 – Lindsay was so scared that she wasn't
enough for him that he would go back to Peyton she didn't even
realize that the real threat was Brooke the person she was coming to
see as her close friend. Major Brucas!

Chapter
One – Watching You

Ida
Scott Taylor once wrote: Do not look back and grieve over the past,
for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has
not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it
will be worth remembering.

That
was what Lucas Scott was trying to do, he was living his life, and he
didn't want the drama that was his high school life. A love
triangle that hurt so many people. How did he ever believe that a
healthy happy relationship would come from it?

Because
his relationship with Peyton Sawyer was anything but healthy.

Now
Lindsay, the love that they share is different. It happened in a
normal drama free way. They weren't happy at someone else's
expense. Well maybe it was at Peyton's expense but that was her own
fault. She left him, not the other way around. Tonight it became so
clear in his mind when he saw her at the river court, tonight he felt
nothing. So now he was finally free to move on with Lindsay, Peyton
had been the one thing holding him back from taking the next step and
asking her to marry him. But now he was ready he would go ring
shopping tomorrow!

Brooke
Davis had everything she had ever wished for, well kind of. Her label
Clothes over Bros was a hit and her senior yearbook wish had come
true. Tonight at the Emmy's Joan Rivers had asked Reese Witherspoon
who she was wearing and her response had been "Brooke Davis". But
as she sat on her couch and watched the live telecast she thought she
would feel so much more but instead her joy was short lived as she
was jumping around her large living area she realized she has no one
to share it with no one to jump around with her. She still spoke to
Hayley on the phone but hadn't seen her in almost four years and it
didn't seem right to call Hayley up to be excited about another one
of Brooke's achievements when just recently she and Nathan had lost
so much. She could call Lucas they were friends now but she was still
unsure if she was allowed to do that. She hadn't met Lindsay yet
and she thought she proberly wouldn't want his ex girlfriend
calling so late.

Later
that night when the phone rang she hoped it would be a friend calling
and not another fashion emergency like every other night this week
had been.

"Hello"

"Brooke
I just watched the red carpet special, i'm so proud of your dream –
she said she was wearing you!"

"Peyton
I haven't heard from you in so long – thanks for remembering"

"As
if I wouldn't B.Davis – Brooke you don't sound happy, you are
happy aren't you?"

"I
don't know P.Sawyer! The tension could be felt with the open ended
answer, how does one not know if they are happy or not?"

And
as Brooke sat on the end of a silent phone line she wondered why she
couldn't answer that question – why wasn't she happy? She had
everything she ever wished for everything except love. Of course she
had dated in the last four years since her and Chase broke up but no
one ever lit the spark inside her that a certain ex had.

"Brooke
are you there?"

"Oh
sorry Peyton just thinking…."

"I'm
going home – i'm going back to Tree Hill and I want you to come
with me, would you Brooke?"

"Sure
Peyton – I think I need time away from New York a bit of Tree Hill
is what I need. But Peyton there is one thing I need to ask ….."

Brooke
wasn't sure how to ask the one question that had been playing on
her mind for the last 2 and half years …..

"Sure
Brooke you can ask me anything…"

"Are
you going home for Lucas?"

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Hey
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was hard to understand without the proper grammar. Hope you like the
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